Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
Alfred Stieglitz
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Exhibition Curator
Photographer
Photography Critic
Publisher
Hoboken
New Jersey
Alfred Steiglitz
Merely
Accepting
Wrong
Nothing
Done
Thing
Things
Men
Photographer
More quotes by Alfred Stieglitz
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.
Alfred Stieglitz
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
Alfred Stieglitz
When I make a picture, I make love.
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography is my passion.
Alfred Stieglitz
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
Alfred Stieglitz
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.
Alfred Stieglitz
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
Alfred Stieglitz
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz
The fight for photography became my life.
Alfred Stieglitz
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
Alfred Stieglitz
I detest tradition for tradition's sake the half-alive that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.
Alfred Stieglitz
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
Alfred Stieglitz
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
Alfred Stieglitz
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
Alfred Stieglitz
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Alfred Stieglitz
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
Alfred Stieglitz
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
Alfred Stieglitz